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113172.86 in reply to 113172.84
Date: 1/5/2010 2:29:06 AM
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I basically didnt have anyone that was really good in my startup team. Ive bought 4/5 starters and its barely been a week since I started.

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113172.87 in reply to 113172.86
Date: 1/5/2010 9:00:04 AM
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Randomking333 you are right your team is unimpressive although even though your players seem bad they may still have the numbers where they need them most and be ok players. A couple of the guys you have purchased seem ok.

You will need to get at least someone who is worth training. I think an 18 year old all star salary 3500+ or a 19 year old perennial all star salary 4000+ would be the bare minimum. Your "best" trainee at the moment probably is

Teimua Forbes (12544588) Center
Weekly salary: $ 3 193
DMI: 9000
Age: 19
Height: 7'0" / 213 cm
Potential: perennial allstar
Game Shape: respectable

and I think you could pick up much, much better prospects for way less than $100,000.

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113172.88 in reply to 113172.87
Date: 1/5/2010 6:23:57 PM
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wow.. really?.. thats great.. I will keep my eye out on the Transfer market.

More urgently, I was buying players I could immediately insert into my starting lineup. They're doing quite well. Now, a trainee might be the way to go. I have about 100k-150k to spend on a trainee.

Might you have a good idea of what type of player trains fastest? (bigmen, shooting guards etc).
And what attributes should I expect out of a player I spend 100k to 150k on?

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113172.89 in reply to 113172.88
Date: 1/5/2010 6:35:29 PM
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btw, when do salaries update?
Is it weekly after training or once an year?

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113172.90 in reply to 113172.89
Date: 1/5/2010 7:26:33 PM
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Salaries only update at the start/end of each season. So nce a season. So you can have a player you have trained all season with a salary of only 4k but really he has the skill set of a 10k player (Very good for when teams are trying to scout your team)

For what kind of trainee you should look for it really up to what you want to train. If you want to train guards you should try find a shorter young 18/19 year old as they train in guard skills faster than a tall player. And vice versa if you want to train C/PF.

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113172.91 in reply to 113172.90
Date: 1/5/2010 8:04:08 PM
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how about a 7 foot SF?

A little too tall?

And another thing, I might run into financial issues. How much debt can I go into without losing my team?

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113172.92 in reply to 113172.91
Date: 1/5/2010 8:19:44 PM
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Depends what you need to train the SF in. If he already has good guard skills and you only need to train his inside skills he is perfect :)

And for your second question here is the answer straight from BB-Charles:
As part of a new agreement between BuzzerBeater owners and their lending institutions, after two weeks without getting back above -$500,000, a team will find all of their players listed for sale, with the proceeds helping them get back out of debt. Teams will only go into receivership (and get a new, bank-appointed general manager) if listing their players for sale has not brought a team out of bankruptcy be the next economy update. This should have the dual effect of allowing general managers a better chance to keep their team from disappearing and letting banks recover more money when a team goes bankrupt.

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113172.93 in reply to 113172.92
Date: 1/5/2010 10:11:31 PM
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ok great.. I was worrying about going into the red only slightly (a few k perhaps)... but even that wont happen now.

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113172.94 in reply to 113172.93
Date: 1/5/2010 10:25:05 PM
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I just had a look at your team and you are a few players to many. 24 players is way to much if ask me. Most teams manage their minutes with around 12-15 players max. If I were you I would either sell or fire about 9 of your players.

You have a lot of players under 3k salary, in my eyes players with a salary under 3k are a waste of time so I normally fire them straight away, I'd suggest you start building your team from there.

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113172.95 in reply to 113172.94
Date: 1/5/2010 11:50:36 PM
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alright.. I will cut down on the players. The numbers are high because I have been paying attention to the purchasing of better players to strengthen my team. Now that I have an ok starting lineup and bench, I can look back to cut a few of the originals.

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113172.96 in reply to 113172.95
Date: 1/6/2010 1:52:29 AM
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in fact i would be ruthless as a starting team probably all but 1-4 of your starting players are worthless

a good way to start is look at every player whose salary is under $3500 click on them it is says their value is something like "rarely sells for more than a few thousand dollars" or "$1,000-$4,000" I would fire them immediately.

look at your team work out who is your best pg, sg, sf, pf and c that is 5

then who is your best backup guard back up sf and backup big man that is 3 more

finally who are your two best training prospects max 2 if they are not already covered

that is 10 players for the rest if they can be sold for $10,000 or more sell them if not fire them right away

do it you wont regret it

only thing you may wish to check is some guys to see if they are worth keeping with some experts

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